Xbox 360 Hits 10 Million Sold, and One More Thing…
January 5th, 2007
In the same breath that Microsoft plans to announce that the Xbox 360 has surpassed 10.4 million units sold, they also will reveal that the 360 might just be the living room trojan horse that many thought the system might turn out to be when first announced.
According to this post (UPDATE 1/6/07: this link is no longer active) on The Mercury News, it’s expected that Microsoft will be announcing plans during their upcoming CES keynote speech for the gaming console to act as an IPTV set-top box for high-definition digital television.
So now that Microsoft has 10 million+ Xbox 360′s in living rooms all over the world, they certainly could be the bait for people to adopt upcoming Microsoft IPTV based television services (such as AT&T’s U-Verse service) by offering a single device that can play high quality games, online community, media downloads and storage, and now, stream live television.
[UPDATE 1/6/07: It appears that the original Mercury News story has since been removed, leading me to believe that this information was, in fact an early leak that wasn't supposed to hit the press until after the CES keynote]
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Categories: Home Entertainment Video Games
Tags: announcement ces iptv living room sales set top box xbox 360
Mmm… privacy violations…
If there’s one piece of hidden functionality, there could be more. Maybe the kind that records your behavior and gives it to Microsoft to sell for profit? It’d be interesting to see what goes through the network on those things.
This is an interesting article about Xbox 360 privacy violations.
Now, folks will say that you can just change the privacy settings, but it’s likely that this just makes it so that normal users can’t see. Microsoft could still be collecting this information.
10 million shipped by december last year! They just crossed the 8 million ‘sold’ mark in March 07.
iptv?
IPTV = Internet Protocol Television